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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 84, Issue 9, Pages 4469-4480Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02441-09
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- DFG [AD131/3-1, SPP1130, AD 131/2-3, SI779/3-3, GR1990/2-1]
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The glycoprotein gO (UL74) of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) forms a complex with gH/gL. Virus mutants with a deletion of gO show a defect in secondary envelopment with the consequence that virus spread is restricted to a cell-associated pathway. Here we report that the positional homolog of HCMV gO, m74 of mouse CMV (MCMV), codes for a glycosylated protein which also forms a complex with gH (M75). m74 knockout mutants of MCMV show the same spread phenotype as gO knockout mutants of HCMV, namely, a shift from supernatant-driven to cell-associated spread. We could show that this phenotype is due to a reduction of infectious virus particles in cell culture supernatants. m74 knockout mutants enter fibroblasts via an energy-dependent and pH-sensitive pathway, whereas in the presence of an intact m74 gene product, entry is neither energy dependent nor pH sensitive. This entry phenotype is shared by HCMV expressing or lacking gO. Our data indicate that the m74 and UL74 gene products both codetermine CMV spread and CMV entry into cells. We postulate that MCMV, like HCMV, expresses alternative gH/gL complexes which govern cell-to-cell spread of the virus.
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